The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-01
Religious Notes.


and reward. Take the wages Christian worker.
To many they are an unused mine.
Religious Notes.
Insane haste to become rich is one road to
poverty, and many walk therein in these days
of oil and
But why. alas, do mortal men complaint
God gives US what He knows wants require,
And better things than those which desire.
DRYDEN
Rev. Brooke Herford: think the world of
to-day would go mad, just frenzed with strain
and pressure but for the blessed institution of
Sunday.
Mr.. Yung Wing, naturalized Chinaman, who
has been In this country twenty years, has been
elected president of the Connecticut Congrega-
tlonal Club, in Hartford.
Christian Standard: Most men call frettine
a minor fault, foible, and not vice. There is
no vice except drum kenness which can utterly
destroy the peace the happiness of a home.
Hear every upon his favorite theme,
And ever be more knowing than you seem.
The lowest genius will afford some light,
Or give hint that had escaped your sight.
Benjamin Sting1eet
George W. Childs of Philadelphia, is Bible
society in miniature. He has presented $50 some
one says who has kept an account) over two hun
bred handsome bibles to churches and Sunday
schools
Spurgeon If crooked stick is before you
you need not explain how crooked IL is. Lay
straight one down by the side of it. and the
work is DONE Preach the TRUTH and error will
stand abashed in its presence.
Santana Miyado, a young Japanese who was
converted during revival at Missouri Valley.
Ia this last winter, is now attending Simpson
College, Indianola, preparing for the work of the
Christian ministry in his native land.
The Tablet, the leading organ of the Roman
Catholic Church in England admits that the ma
jority of the French people ID longer Roman
Catholics. and declares that the Church of Rome
longer place her hopes for the future in
the Latin races, but must look TO the Celts and
the Germans
and they amount to nothing. Put the figure
before them and they amount to million. All
human talents and possessions are but ciphers
until you put the name of Jesus at the head of
them. Then they make their owner a million
aire for heaven.
Rev. DR.. j. G. Merrill: There is but one way
in which to learn this life; it is to live it. Read
ing about it, studying about il, praying over it.
all are well, but they all stop short of the glori
Gus, ultimate living it. So that here as else
where we can learn that the secret of knowing
is doing. True knowledge is the legitimate out
come of true character.
The presDytery of Louisville recently voted in
favor of striking from the Confession of Faith
Section 4. Chapter "a. which reads: The man
may not marry any of his wife's kindred nearer
in blood than he may of his own nor the woman
of her husbands kindred nearer in blood than of
her own" The vote was on motion to strike
out, handed down from the last General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian Church.
Rev. Dr. John Welsh Dulles. corresponding
and editorial secretary of the Presbyterian
H6lla0elphla
April 13 He spent number of years in South
India missionary, ard afterwards APP
pointed secretary of the missionary work of the
American Sunday-school Union, in Phlladel-
phia. and later editorial secretary, which latter
position he held for than thirty years He
the author of Life in India" and THE
Ride Through Palestine" books that have been
widely read.
Rev. Mr.. Savage. in sermon on Patience
urged upon lis hearers to be patient with chill
dren. with servants with stupid people, and
l0l. h
wicked What does wickedness mean? No man
woman ever chose wsckedness who could COM
prehend the beauty. and sweetness, and noble
ness OF the opposite. a wicked person calls for
more pity than do the unfortunate good. Let
remember the wisdom as we'll as the sweet
ness of that Oriental prayer, % God, bless the
wicked the good Thou hast already blessed in
making them good.
There is "A pleasant story told of a man living
on the borders of an African desert, who car
ried daily pitcher of cold water to the dusty
thoroughfare, and left 1t for thirsty t.avsler
who might pass that way. And our Savior said:
"Whosoever shall give to drink unto of these
little cup of cold water ouly in the name
of disciple, verify say unto you he shall in no
wise lose his reward" But cups of cold water
not given in African deserts alone A spirit
ual Sahara spreads over the whole earth. and to
its fainting travellers many ready hand holds
forth the grateful cup"
In regard TO the prohibition wave in the South,
the Springfield Republican says: THE great
thing observable about these prohibition waves
in the South is that they follow along with the
prospects of better times in business way
They amount to kind of moral revival. Whis-
ky, shiftlessness and poverty have gone hand in
hand time out of mind in parts of the South
With the chance to make money comes ambi-
ton, and with ambition temperance. In the
rural communities of Texas, and the whole
South, where the crossroads grocery has been a
fruitful source of evil, it is not strange to see
the generation demanding that the liquor
evil must be repressed."
In article comparing the condition of Great
Britain at the beginning OF Queen Victoria's
reign and at the present time the Rev. f. n.
Zabriskie writes, in the Christian Intelligencer:
''One out of every eleven of the people a
pauper. Sanitary science regulation
comparatively unknown. Soldiers and sailors,
the insane and the prisoner, were treated like
brutes Women and little children al
lowed to do mems work, the latter without linn
ltation of hours Chimneys were swept by
boys Half the population could not read The
first vigorous effort for temperance reform
made In the year of Victorias accession by
Father Mathew. who enrolled five million mem
bers in his total abstinence societies in five
years, and in two years decreased the consump-
ton of whisky in Ireland one-half. Foreign
missions had barely rooted themselves in